ABSTRACT
The discussions in this book have demonstrated how Conrad works out different narrative techniques to progressively recreate past events and how he embraces memory's inherent connection to the future, the Other, the community, and emotion. Conrad's creative trajectory reveals how he continuously struggled to render his writing a “mirror” of the past while simultaneously highlighting the inherently narrative and interpretative nature of autobiographical remembering. This tension contributes to some of the most prominent features of Conrad's narrative landscape – ambiguity, uncertainty, indeterminacy, and anxiety – features that in turn uncover how the writer persistently negotiates the ongoing processes of constructing and deconstructing his memories and identity amidst a changing historical and cultural world. Consequently, this conclusion argues that Conrad's autobiographical remembering process throughout his literary career illuminates a new trope of memory, namely, the trope of sea, and that his writing anticipates a new mode of understanding autobiographical process and identity construction, characterised by fluidity, openness, and interconnectedness.
